Pascagoula VFW post asks for bingo exception on city's smoking ban

PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- A local Veterans of Foreign Wars post is asking the Pascagoula City Council to amend its recently adopted smoking ordinance to strike bingo halls from the list of places where smoking in banned.

Smoking is also banned with 20 feet of entrances to those facilities, but it is not generally banned on sidewalks.

Current exceptions to the ban include private residences (except those being used for a child care, adult day care or health care facility), retail tobacco stores and private clubs that are not open to the general public.

Pettys went before the board at a July meeting to ask for an exception, but the board said the ordinance would need to go into effect before they considered changing it.